FIELDS OF MEMORY: SHALABIA IBRAHIM
May 14 to June 21, 2026

Location: Abu Dhabi

Fields of Memory unfolds as a vibrant tapestry of lived experience and imagination. Ibrahim’s work exists at a unique cultural crossroads; born in Monufia, Egypt, in 1944 and long based in Syria, her practice is deeply informed by the visual traditions of the Levant and the rural soul of the Nile.

The exhibition highlights Ibrahim’s mastery of color as a language. Her dense, saturated palettes do more than fill space, they structure the image and carry an immediate affective presence, acting as an emotional anchor for the viewer. Her aesthetic, rooted in folk and popular art, utilizes stylized figures and simplified forms to create compositions that are at once universally accessible and profoundly symbolic.

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